Arizona News

Phoenix, Arizona - Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced that a State Grand Jury indicted seven additional Arizona men in connection with a multi-agency, online undercover operation conducted earlier this summer aimed at identifying individuals interested in using the Internet to meet up with minors for sex.

Kristopher Haas (36), David Alan Chickering (55), Robert John Macadam (50), Lee Guzman-Saldivar (27), Sean Grimes (54), Scott Jackson (33), and Moroni Ayala (43) are all accused of soliciting sex from undercover agents who were posing as minors on various social media platforms. Each of the seven men is accused of arriving at undercover locations to meet up with who they believed were minors in order to complete the sex acts.

Operation Summer Shield was conducted over a week-long period and was the result of joint investigative efforts by the Tempe Police Department, the Mesa Police Department, and the Arizona Attorney General’s Office. 26 men in total were arrested in the operation that ran from June 29 to July 3. The total number of defendants indicted to date is 11.

The investigation is ongoing. If you have any additional information about these individuals, please contact Sergeant Sean Still with Tempe Police Department at (480) 858-6492.

All defendants are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law.

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Earlier this year, the Arizona Attorney General's Office produced the graphic below alerting parents to twelve apps that could put children in danger. Many of the apps listed below are also used by adult predators to communicate with children.